| Interesting post.
I think you present a very realistic future for mankind. We are clever animals with big brains. But our brains evolved due to our being such puny, defenseless animals. All the world's navies and armies, all of our bombs and guns and precision hardware can't save us from a catastrophic natural event like an asteroid collision or the eruption of the Yellowstone basin. In fact, all it would take is having the planet's atmosphere vented into space and the entire planet will be lifeless.
Why would anyone imagine that we'd avoid the same fate as the other powerful creatures that have ruled this planet (for longer than we humans)? Space is a hostile environment. All the evidence we currently possess suggests that life in the universe is the less common state. Perhaps that's due to the delicate nature of life. |